Well-bucket



s1. HARPER. v WELL BucKELfl APPLICATION; FILED, .MAY- 21, 1920.

71,373,450, j Patented May 17, 1921.

I I I I Qtkoufiip UNITED STATES TOM HARPER, OF COLUMBIA, MISSISSIPIEI.

WELL-BUCKET.

Application filed May 21, 1920. Serial No. 383,270.

T 0 aZZ-w homit may concern:

Be it known that I, TOM HARPER, a citi zen of the United States, residing at C0- lumbia, in the county of Marion and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful lVell-Bucket, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention aims to provide an improved well bucket which is so constructed that the valve in the bottom of the same may be removed readily and a new one inserted.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of my improved well bucket;

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan of the same;

Fig. 3 is a top plan of the removable valve seat and valve.

Referring to the drawing, the humeral 5 denotes a well bucket which has its upper end open the bucket being provided with a bail 6 to which the well rope is adapted to be secured.

The bottom of the bucket is designated at 7 and is provided with a central opening 8 having interior screw threads 9. A removable valve seat 10 is provided and has screw threads 11 upon its periphery which are engaged with the threads 9 in the opening 8. The valve seat 10 is provided with a central opening or port 12 and is further provided with recesses or notches 13 at diametrically opposite points, at the edge of the opening, and upon the outer face of the valve seat, these recesses being adapted to receive a tool, whereby the valve may be threaded readily into the opening 8 or be disengaged therefrom.

A check valve 14: in the form of a flap is secured to the inner face of the valve seat 10 by a staple 25 or the like and normally covers the opening 12. I The valve 14; is adapted to open inwardly to permit the ingress of water when the bucket is lowered into the well.

It will be manifest that I have provided a simple and inexpensive bucket embodying a construction which will permit the valve to be removed from the bottom of the bucket, for renewal or repair.

What I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is 1. In a well bucket, a cylindrical body having its upper end open and provided with a central opening in its bottom, the opening having interior screw threads, a valve seat threaded intothe opening, and a flap valve secured to the inner face of the valve seat. p

2. In a well bucket, a cylindrical body having an opening in its bottom, a valve seat threaded in the opening and provided with an inlet, and with notches at diametrically opposite points for the reception of a tool, thereby to engage and disengage the valve seat from the bottom, and a flap valve secured to the inner face of the valve seat normally closing the inlet.

bottom, a valve seat threaded into the open-- ing and provided with an inlet port, and

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 1'7, 1921.

with notches at diametrically opposite points 7 at'the edge of the inlet port, the notches being adapted to receive a tool thereby to thread the valve seat into and out of the opening, and a flap valve secured to the inner face of the valve seat and normally closing the inlet port.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as m own ,I have hereto affixed m si *na-- ture in the presenceof two witnesses.

TOM HARPER.

- WVitnesses:

LEE D. HALL, W. S. BOONE. 

